Re: Why are 2.6 modules so huge?

[Harald Dunkel]

Måns Rullgård wrote:
> My 2.6.3 vfat.ko is 15365 bytes.  Maybe you enabled kernel debugging
> symbols.

% ll /lib/modules/2.6.3/kernel/fs/vfat/
total 16
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14232 Feb 19 07:43 vfat.ko

Assuming that you are on i686:

A size difference of 1 KByte (about 7%) is remarkable. Which
gcc did you use for building 2.6.3?

I am on Debian (Sid). Gcc is 3.3.3, which was released a
few days ago.


Regards

Harri
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